Job Description:
Senior Vendor Manager
Hybrid working with up to 4 days per week working from home
Angel Court (London) or Bupa Place (Salford Quays)
Permanent
Fantastic benefits including 10% management bonus scheme, Private healthcare and enhanced pension contributions
Full time 37.5 hours per week
We make health happen
At Bupa, we're not just a health insurer and provider - we're a team of people driven by a shared purpose: helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus.
As a Senior Vendor Manager, you'll play a key role in making health happen by ensuring our technology partnerships deliver real value. You'll help us build strong, strategic relationships with our suppliers - making sure we get the best from them, and they get the best from us. This is your chance to shape how we work with our vendors, influence key decisions, and help us deliver outstanding technology solutions across Bupa.
How you'll help us make health happen
In this role, you'll:
Lead vendor management for a specific IT category and act as business partner to Technology tower leads e.g. UK Insurance, Health Services, Dental etc.
Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key technology suppliers
Work with Procurement and Tech Leadership to select the right vendors for the right tasks
Develop and maintain supplier strategies for strategic vendors
Support contract negotiations and renewals
Collaborate with internal teams to align market unit vendor activity with Bupa's technology strategy
Identify Innovation opportunities and drive efficiencies across supplier engagements
Ensure strategic vendor governance is in place to drive innovation, growth and delivery against the Bupa strategy
Maintain a forward view of renewals and new vendor engagements
Use data and insights to inform decisions and improve vendor delivery
Key skills/qualifications needed for this role
We're looking for someone who:
Has experience managing third-party suppliers, ideally in IT
Brings strong IT contract skills and commercial acumen (IACCM/WCC or CIPS certification is a plus)
Understands regulatory requirements and governance
Can manage multiple projects and priorities with ease
Has excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Uses data to drive decisions and improve outcomes
Is confident holding senior leaders to account and influencing at all levels
Acts with integrity and builds trust in every interaction
Has a collaborative mindset and thrives in a fast-paced environment
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
Annual performance-based bonus
Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type:
Full timeJob Area:
ITLocations:
Angel Court, London, Bupa Place
Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.
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We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you.
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Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.
You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
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